Basic Trope: A character declares an action to be unforgivable and opts for revenge on the wrongdoer.
- Straight: After his village is burned down and his people murdered by the army of Oda Nobunaga, Yoshio swears revenge.
- Exaggerated: A vow to destroy Oda comes from Yoshio after Oda refuses to tip at the cafe where Yoshio works.
- Downplayed: Yoshio considers the slaughter and razing of his village a rather unpleasant, but totally understandable, act for a warlord. That doesn't stop him from pursuing Oda's downfall.
- Justified:
- Yoshio's village and family were destroyed for little more than being in Oda's way, and that hurts. Yoshio believes Oda must be held accountable for his actions because that's all he has left.
- Yoshio has a strong sense of honor, which means he's not going to let wanton cruelty slide no matter who instigates it or what it costs him to confront.
- Inverted: Even after the slaughter of his people, Yoshio lets Oda live because he believes in Oda's cause more than anything else.
- Subverted:
- Yoshio confronts Oda, but his shrewdness and charisma, along with the scope of his vision of a unified country, manage to win Yoshio over, turning a bereaved and angry young man into one of his most trusted lieutenants.
- Yoshio's vengeance is cut short by his death at the hands of looters in the remains of his village.
- Turns out Oda personally didn't personally order the slaughter, it was done by some of his men who were particularly bloodthirsty, liked to Kick the Dog, and disobeyed Oda's orders For the Evulz. Not amused with the non-warranted slaughter, Oda executed the culprits in public, thus Yoshio no longer have reasons to be vengeful on him.
- Parodied: Yoshio is given a sudden premonition that he will waste his life chasing after a demon king for a foolish cause. He's ecstatic.
- Zig Zagged: Yoshio realizes vengeance against Oda isn't in the cards for him, so he does his best to get over the tragedy... until Oda sets his sights on the new village he's settled down in. Realizing he can't let Oda continue his acts of cruelty, he vows to both avenge his past and defend his present from the warlord with the help of an army of his own.
- Averted: Yoshio knows nothing of his village's fate as he is out of the country at the time.
- Yoshio is slaughtered along with his people. No man, no vengeance.
- Enforced: It's part of a Revenge Before Reason Aesop.
- Lampshaded: "I have a feeling this Oda is going to drive me to extremes."
- Invoked: Oda deliberately targets the weaker villages to see if anyone has the stones to declare vengeance against him.
- Exploited: Yoshio's blind rage is channeled by Oda's rivals to make him a formidable opponent to the warlord.
- Defied: Yoshio pardons Oda for his crimes, believing the gods will bring due justice in time.
- Discussed: Oda has a conversation with his top generals on the necessity of vengeance to provide useful illustrations of what happens to the blade of grass that grows too high.
- Conversed: Yoshio is dissuaded from taking vengeance by a wise old man who tried and failed to stop Oda for doing the same thing to his village long ago.
- Implied: Yoshio and Oda's families share a rivalry stretching back ages, with the slaughter of Yoshio's village serving as the straw breaking the camel's back.
- Deconstructed:
- The act of vengeance against Oda brings Yoshio no closure, and he spends his remaining years wandering the land as a broken vagrant.
- Yoshio fails to kill Oda before his betrayal by Akechi Mitsuhide. And with Yoshio's Vengeance Denied, he ends his own life.
- Reconstructed: The failure of Yoshio's revenge and Oda's demise together become a cautionary tale against both vengeance and cruelty.
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